# Glue Code

>Journal, Blog, Brain Dump, etc
>
>Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.

[About][1] | [Links][36] | [RSS][39] | [Quotes][40]

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## 2025

- 2025-04-16 [Systems Self-Defense][44] -- Part 1 of building
  applications that can always run at maximum speed.
- 2025-03-18 [Consequences of Deviance][43] -- Why everyone seems rude
  and we aren't handling it.
- 2025-03-03 [Wealth, Capitalism, and The Economy][42] -- The one time
  "quit acting like a child" is a valid criticism.
- 2025-02-26 [Switching to FreeBSD][41] -- Moving to FreeBSD.
- 2025-01-15 [Building Reliably][38] -- Maximum reliability and ease of
  maintenance over compactness/cleverness.

## 2024

- 2024-11-08 [Hardware details][37] -- Updates as promised on the new
  server.
- 2024-11-06 [November sucks][35] -- Get politcally active.

## 2023

- 2023-11-29 [New hardware][34] -- Scaling up personal machines.

## 2022

- 2022-05-13 [Reboot][33] --- Restarting the journal after years of silence.

## 2018

- 2018-07-22 [The pace of change][32] --- Remarks on social, legal, and
  technological change.
- 2018-03-16 [Follow up RE: Google][31] --- Further explanation on [my rage-quit
  of Google.][29]
- 2018-02-27 [Google is terrible][29] --- Explanation for why I'm against
  Google now, despite my earlier support

## 2017

- 2017-11-02 [Docker Shenanigans][28] --- Misbehaving with docker
- 2017-11-02 [Docker Builder Pattern][27] --- Using the builder pattern to make
    smaller images
- 2017-10-24 [Learning Rust][26] --- Learning Rust after developing a while in
    Go
- 2017-09-07 [Why clean up git branches][25] --- What happens when git can't
    keep up with the number of objects in a repository
- 2017-08-22 [Ignorance costs us everything][24] --- Remarks on lessons
    forgotten about non-technical contributions
- 2017-08-15 [It's all politics][23] --- Thoughts on the Alt-Right movement and
    Charlottesville, VA
- 2017-08-03 [Your Ops team is dying][22] --- Doing a little happy dance while
    the industry evolves
- 2017-08-01 [Google Sites][21] --- Migrating to Google Sites
- 2017-07-24 [Gophercon 2017 and other stuff][20] --- Some links and a few quick
    notes
- 2017-07-10 [Scuba Certification][19] --- I'm now a Certified Open Water diver!
- 2017-06-14 [Chromebook has arrived][18] --- it's here!
- 2017-06-13 [Final prep for Chromebook][17] --- Time to clear out the cobwebs!
- 2017-05-17 [Whole30 rant][16] --- Gotta get something off my chest...
- 2017-05-16 [Blog on a diet][15] --- Recent review of my eternal
    experimentation with this website.
- 2017-04-04 [Life in Chrome (Part 2)][14] --- A follow-up to my original [Life
    in Chrome][12] post.
- 2017-03-30 [Why encrypting everything on the internet makes sense][30] --- A
  short opinion piece explaining the need for encryption when it comes to the
  internet.
- 2017-03-23 [Ongoing encryption efforts][13] --- What it says on the tin.
- 2017-03-07 [Life in Chrome][12] --- What happens when you work entirely within
    in a browser?
- 2017-03-07 [Get on the Upgrade Treadmill][11] --- Lessons learned about timely
    upgrades and procedures for doing so.
- 2017-03-04 [Shifting blogging engines][10] --- My statements about moving this
    blog between Hugo, Wordpress, Blogger, and Ghost.
- 2017-03-04 [Code Less][9] --- Suggestions on reducing code and layers of
    abstraction.

## 2016

- 2016-08-31 [Redefining Stability][8] --- Stability comes with various
    assumptions, so let's work on the definitions.
- 2016-08-29 [Gitlab Follow-up][7] --- Follow-up on the [GitlabCI post][6].
- 2016-08-16 [Gitlab and GitlabCI][6] --- Introduction of Gitlab to my company
    and comparison with other solutions.
- 2016-03-16 [Tech Choices and Pitfalls for DevOps][5] --- List of potential
    issues around choices of technology and how they are applied, with a focus
    on DevOps purposes.

## 2015

- 2015-12-18 [Software Boundaries][4] --- A rant about working with what you
    have instead of complaining about what the thing isn't.
- 2015-12-14 [Forget NAT; Use Firewalls][3] --- An explanation as to why NAT and
    related designs are unnecessary in today's internet.
- 2015-12-10 [Why VPN in Google Cloud Platform is superfluous][2] --- Why a
    site-to-site VPN doesn't make sense when operating in environments like
    Google Cloud.

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